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Huntsville’s offense is worse than it was last year without being able to just throw it up to Woodberry. Not near the run defense without the Bobino brothers either.

14-0 King. This might not even be competitive.

They sure had that attitude last year. I can distinctly remember our district mates predicting Crosby would get killed in rounds 2-6, they just moved the prediction every week until they were eventually right. If we’re being honest, outside of when they play Crosby every other team in this district folds when they get on the field with a big time opponent.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Gilbeau play primarily in the nickel in college. Great athlete but doesn’t look as fluid as Vincent in coverage. Kirkwood got him on a double move for a td too but was overthrown. I think his ceiling is probably PJ Locke which ain’t bad at all.

Not a fan of the transitive property but kind of my thoughts too. Texas City beat Clear Brook and Clear Brook just beat La Porte by 26. I’m rooting for Coach Tarr to get La Porte turned around though.

Same could be said for when PAM was driving and had the tipped int inside BH’s 10 yard line. The score was misleading in the sense that BH didn’t get blown out like that the whole game but it was right in the sense that they played bad at the end of it. Same issues Holdren showed at the end of the game were the same ones that plagued him last year. I do think the matchup with Crosby will be particularly tough for BH this year with the way we’ve been able to play run defense.

The Guyer defense is good but the Ryan team they beat isn’t on par with the one from last year. QB from last year is starting at Memphis as a true freshman, JT Sanders is at Texas and Billy Bowman is at Oklahoma now. To your point, they’re still a very talented team though. I don’t think people really realize how good Atascocita has been lately. Last year was the first time since 2013 they’ve lost more than 2 games in a season. They’ve won 10+ games six of the last eight years and have been to at least the third round every year since ‘15. Pretty impressive resume considering who they’ve played. They’re going to keep getting better and better too because it doesn’t look like Humble ISD is going to build a school anytime soon to relieve the crowding from them and Summer Creek.

If Texas City finishes any higher than 4th place that’s an indictment on our district. The defense is decent but they’re very one dimensional on offense and the rb they have now isn’t the game breaker McCall was. TC has some good athletes but they’re the type team that gets taken care of without much trouble in a good district. Great start for TC but those teams they’ve beaten aren’t very good, we’ll see what happens in district play.

Remember, Westfield lost 56-0 to Duncanville in the D1 playoffs and Duncanville is even better this year. Westfield didn’t win their district last year and Spring looks very capable of knocking them off again this year. On average they probably have the second best defense in the Houston area behind Katy but their offense has failed them for 20+ years under the Meekins brothers and this year isn’t even one of their potent ones. As far as North Shore I’ll point out again that the last time they faced Atascocita with a first year starter they got beaten soundly 38-21 Davis’ freshman year. ‘Cita is about to go up there and beat Denton Guyer this week too. Coach Kay always gets it worked out, they started 0-3 in 2015 and then ran off 13 straight, but North Shore may not even be a top 5 team in Houston right now.

Key word there being “championship”. Hopefully we can make it to another one and rectify that performance.

We’re working on it. Were y’all able to figure out why your population keeps floating away?

Trust me, win or lose it’s easy to sleep after the stress of a state championship game.

I guess I’m looking more for how it actually backfired instead of just the semantics. Crosby chose not to play in 2010 during realignment, Vidor beat Crosby at the end of the 2011 season. If anything the game was beneficial for Crosby because it led us down the path to better coaches. Vidor’s coach was sub .500 before he beat Crosby and has been sub .500 since. I’m just trying to figure out why Vidor fans bring up a win from 10 years ago more than that fact?

That’s correct. Flannigan was here and Matthews was trying to get a notable game on the schedule. Crosby admin said no and the next year they fired him for losing to Vidor in the first round. It was the greatest thing that happened to Crosby football because it got us Riordan and now Prieto. Matthews probably got an extension/raise off those wins. Since you already realize y’all haven’t don’t anything since then I won’t comment on that portion.

It is what it is. So like I originally asked, how did not playing Vidor backfire against Crosby?

Sorry the sentence was too complex for you. I’ll see if I can break it down to 5th or 6th grade level next time.

Nederland has three or four wins over Crosby, PNG probably has about 10.

We were unranked last year when we beat #3, #4, #5 and #7. Hopefully we can sneak up on them again.

When the Crosby admin chose not to play Vidor they had never even played before so the premise that we didn’t want to play them because they had beaten us is a lie. Vidor has beaten Crosby twice, once in bi-district in 2011 and once in district play in 2019. If that is several to you then fine. How did it backfire against Crosby? We put better teams on the schedule that were more likely to run what we would face on a deep run like we had to the state championship last year while Vidor hasn’t won a first round game since that 2011 contest. Crosby is rolling and Vidor went .500 in 4A last year, if that’s the karma we got them give me more of it.

If I could post the film you would see Crosby didn’t really even blitz, much less send the house. If the rb stayed in to block then the the LB rushed but Crosby hardly ever sent more than what PA’s linemen could’ve individually blocked. I have the film of Sanders getting sacked with Crosby playing three down linemen against five PAM linemen. Carthage’s o-line did a better job blocking than PAM missing even more linemen. Sending the house is what I would consider sending more than six and I don’t see Crosby ever doing that, that’s why the deep balls weren’t there. They just got back there so fast it looked like that. PAM had trouble consistently blocking BH the week before so it’s not a stretch to think they were going to have an issue blocking Crosby, especially with linemen out.

Wish I could post some clips to help your point but it says the videos are too large? PAM struggled to win individual matchups along both lines of scrimmage, the o-line in particular. I’m sure that had something to do with the injuries. To his point about the coaching though, PA actually struggled to block the BH d-line too. They just didn’t have a Casey or Bradley that could finish the pass rush. Pointing fingers at the coaching staff is always the easy way out but when you see how PA looks physically it’s hard to do otherwise.

He’s already beaten North Shore in a regional final in ‘16 and kind of handled them in district play in ‘17 before Davis got it going. They’ve already shut down a pretty decent Allen offense this year. I don’t think SC would be the other team to beat them, I think it would be CE King.

Coach Tarr actually had the run defense playing pretty well starting about halfway though the ‘19 season. Crosby did give up over 1,000+ rushing yards and about a dozen tds in the semis and state championship combined last year but I kind of give him a pass on the slot-T stuff and Crosby just didn’t have the personnel to stop Aledo. I can see why the statement is being made after holding Carthage to 0 total rushing yards and PAM to -14 though. Coach Poth definitely has the defense playing with a different swagger but it also has to be noted that he has some savages in that front seven. Overall this defense is more talented than what coach Tarr was working with last year.

With Texas city probably sitting at 5-0 when Nederland comes to town in a few weeks, this one could well be for a playoff spot.

I would definitely say A&M Con. is the favorite in the region right now based on how well they’ve played on both sides of the ball. May feel different if Huntsville beats CE King this week. FB Marshall doesn’t look as dominant as I expected them too at the line of scrimmage this year, they may get beat by Huntsville or A&M-C in the second round.